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# lutter — French to English

How French *lutter* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: luttaient (183), luttait (116), lutte (292 929), luttent (2 765), lutter (89 684), luttes (1 557), luttez (15), luttons (386), lutté (862). By style: everyday 72 · literary 23 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 26 973 · legal and administrative 14 928 · UN documents 346 489.

## fight

Used about 88 750 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 12 837 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 367 · UN documents ≈ 72 521). Forms: fight, fighting. Meaning: [fight in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fight/).

- Il ne peut pas **lutter**.
  He can't **fight**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ArminAshrafi and CH · checked, community translation · [\#8477682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8477682) [\#8997712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8997712))

- Vous convoitez, et vous ne possédez pas; vous êtes meurtriers et envieux, et vous ne pouvez pas obtenir; vous avez des querelles et des **luttes**, et vous ne possédez pas, parce que vous ne demandez pas.
  You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You **fight** and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 4:2)

- Nous **luttons** contre la corruption.
  We are **fighting** corruption.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1533484)

- **Lutte** contre la criminalité organisée et le terrorisme
  **Fighting** organised crime and terrorism
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 773697)

- **Luttons** contre la corruption.
  Let us **fight** against corruption.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8735496)

## combat

Used about 34 180 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 275 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 357 · UN documents ≈ 29 546). Meaning: [combat in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/combat/).

- Or, dans cette oeuvre de l'éducation, dans cette grave affaire de la préparation d'une femme à la vie, que de science il faut pour **lutter** contre cette grande ignorance qu'on appelle l'innocence!
  Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a woman for life, what science is required to **combat** that vast ignorance which is called innocence!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19287)

- La justice, pour **lutter** contre elle, ne peut rester en retrait.
  The judicial authorities cannot afford to lag behind if they are to **combat** it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1823381)

- les mesures de **lutte** contre les importations illicites de fourrures de chien et de chat.
  measures to **combat** illegal imports of dog and cat furs.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5054682)

- Convention des Nations Unies sur la **lutte** contre la désertification
  United Nations Convention to **Combat** Desertification
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 17614677)

- Sur tous les points la **lutte** était gigantesquement engagée; et, des désarmements, des visites domiciliaires, des boutiques d'armuriers vivement envahies, il résultait ceci que le combat commencé à coups de pierres continuait à coups de fusil.
  The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers’ shops hastily invaded, was, that the **combat** which had begun with the throwing of stones was continued with gun-shots.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23120)

## against

Used about 31 292 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 731 · legal and administrative ≈ 112 · UN documents ≈ 30 441).

- Les minorités ethniques **luttent** contre les préjugés, la pauvreté et l'oppression.
  Ethnic minorities struggle **against** prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#322706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/322706) [\#1133277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1133277))

- La grâce de l'âge **luttait** encore contre la hideuse vieillesse anticipée de la débauche et de la pauvreté.
  The grace of her age was still struggling **against** the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15926)

- Voyant qu’il ne pouvait le vaincre, cet homme le frappa à l’emboîture de la hanche; et l’emboîture de la hanche de Jacob se démit pendant qu’il **luttait** avec lui.
  When he saw that he didn’t prevail **against** him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 32:25)

- **Luttons** ensemble pour la démocratie parlementaire et contre sa mise en échec.
  Let us stand together for parliamentary democracy and **against** its incapacitation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1116907)

- établissant des règles pour **lutter** contre les pratiques d'évasion fiscale qui ont une incidence directe sur le fonctionnement du marché intérieur
  laying down rules **against** tax avoidance practices that directly affect the functioning of the internal market
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3903762)

## fought

Used about 31 174 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 412 · UN documents ≈ 27 755).

- J'ai toujours **lutté** pour survivre.
  I've always **fought** to survive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3723594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3723594) [\#8389264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8389264))

- Mais Ambiorix **luttait** contre Rome, Artevelde contre la France, Marnix contre l'Espagne, Pélage contre les Maures; tous contre l'étranger.
  But Ambiorix **fought** against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24433)

- Il dit encore: Ton nom ne sera plus Jacob, mais tu seras appelé Israël; car tu as **lutté** avec Dieu et avec des hommes, et tu as été vainqueur.
  He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have **fought** with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 32:28)

- Vous avez **lutté** pour la démocratie.
  You **fought** for democracy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1272193)

- Les peuples des pays réformistes ont **lutté** pour leur liberté.
  The peoples in the reformist States **fought** for their freedom.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 789642)

## people

Used about 14 163 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 731 · UN documents ≈ 13 430). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- Pendant des années, il a **lutté** contre la dépendance. Et il a ouvert un centre de rétablissement pour les personnes cherchant à se débarrasser de leur dépendance.
  For years he struggled with addiction. And he opened a recovery center for **people** looking to get rid of addictions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12134892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12134892) [\#12134924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12134924))

- Je vois des gens qui **luttent** pour se redresser après les atrocités de la guerre civile.
  I see **people** struggling to emerge from the aftermath of the civil war atrocities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1088445)

- Le peuple azerbaïdjanais a **lutté** pendant des siècles pour la liberté.
  The Azerbaijani **people** have striven for freedom for centuries.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 746589)

- Lors de la discussion au congrès du rapport de synthèse du comité central du PCUS, il a été noté que, sous la direction du Parti Communiste et en étroite coopération avec tous les pays socialistes, le peuple soviétique a fait des progrès remarquables dans la **lutte** pour l'établissement d'une société communiste en URSS et dans celle pour la paix mondiale.
  During the discussion of the summary report of CC CPSU in the congress, it was noted that, under the guidance of the Communist party, in close cooperation with all the Socialist countries, the Soviet **people** have made great progress in the struggle for building a Communist society in the USSR and in that for world peace.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#401888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/401888) [\#434106](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/434106))

- Toutes les personnes de bonne volonté **luttent** pour la paix et la conciliation entre toutes les nations.
  All **people** of good will strive for peace and conciliation between all nations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 976586)

## terrorism

Used about 12 859 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 325 · UN documents ≈ 12 534).

- Toutefois, nous avons réussi à élaborer une certaine forme d'approche juridique de la **lutte** contre le terrorisme.
  However we have managed to produce some form of legal approach in combating **terrorism**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 908934)

- 12. Droits de l &apos; homme et **lutte** antiterroriste
  12. Human rights and counter-**terrorism**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29287585)

- Et nous-mêmes, qui avons **lutté** contre l'apartheid, nous voilà après coup devenus des partisans du terrorisme !
  Now, on hindsight, we opponents of apartheid are also being exposed as supporters of **terrorism**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 276600)

- créé par la résolution 1373 (2001) concernant la **lutte** antiterroriste
  Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-**terrorism**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11018178)

- Nous devons apprendre à accepter cet état de choses et à en tenir compte quand nous fixons les stratégies de **lutte** contre le terrorisme.
  We need to learn to accept this and take it into account when determining counter-**terrorism** strategies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 580280)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Vivre, c'est **lutter**.
  To live is to struggle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2839904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2839904) [\#6684749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6684749))

- Felix a commencé à **lutter**.
  Felix started to struggle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11624652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11624652) [\#11628467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11628467))

- Cet agriculteur compte sur les insectes utiles pour **lutter** contre les ravageurs.
  This farmer relies on beneficial insects for pest control.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#6858660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6858660) [\#14072369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14072369))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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